1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996419447103316

Titolo

Tracing the Jerusalem Code : Volume 1: The Holy City Christian Cultures in Medieval Scandinavia (ca. 1100-1536) / / ed. by Kristin B. Aavitsland, Line M. Bonde

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

3-11-063943-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XX, 617 p.)

Soggetti

RELIGION / Christianity / History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Maps and Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Editorial comments for all three volumes -- Prelude -- Introductions: Jerusalem in Medieval Scandinavia -- Chapter 1 Jerusalem: Navel of the Storyworld in Medieval Scandinavia -- Chapter 2 Re-Naming Jerusalem: A Note on Associative Etymology in the Vernacular North -- Chapter 3 Translatio Templi: A Conceptual Condition for Jerusalem References in Medieval Scandinavia -- Part I: Kings, Crusaders, and Jerusalem Relics: Strategies of Legitimation, Models of Authority -- Chapter 4 Jerusalem and the Christianization of Norway -- Chapter 5 Scandinavian Holy Kings in the Nativity Church of Bethlehem -- Chapter 6 The Saint and the Wry-Neck: Norse Crusaders and the Second Crusade -- Chapter 7 Historia de Profectione Danorum in Hierosolymam: A Journey to the Lost Jerusalem -- Chapter 8 Importing Jerusalem: Relics of the True Cross as Political Legitimation in Early Twelfth-Century Denmark and Norway -- Chapter 9 The Crown of Thorns and the Royal Office in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Scandinavia -- Part II: The Holy City: Travels, Perceptions, and Interactions -- Chapter 10 From Nidaros to Jerusalem; from Feginsbrekka to Mount Joy -- Chapter 11 Scandinavian Pilgrims and the Churches of the Holy Land in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries -- Chapter 12 Physical and Spiritual Travel across the Christian Storyworld: Leiðarvísir, an Old Norse Itinerary to Jerusalem -- Chapter



13 The Locus of Truth: St Birgitta of Sweden and the Pilgrimage to the Holy Land -- Part III: Jerusalem Transposed and Reenacted: Townscapes, Churches, and Practices -- Chapter 14 St Olav, Nidaros, and Jerusalem -- Chapter 15 Jerusalem Commonplaces in Danish Rural Churches: What Urban Architecture Remembers -- Chapter 16 The Holy City in the Wilderness: Interpreting the Round Churches in Västergötland, Sweden -- Chapter 17 Entering the Temple of Jerusalem: Candlemas and Churching in the Lives of the Women of the North. A Study of Textual and Visual Sources -- Chapter 18 Heavenly Agent and Divine Disclosure: The Holy Cross at Borre -- Chapter 19 The Heavenly Jerusalem and the Late Medieval Church Interior -- Part IV: Navigating the Sacred Storyworld: Nordic Landscapes and Salvation History -- Chapter 20 Civitas Hierusalem famosisima: The Cross, the Orb, and the History of Salvation in the Medieval North -- Chapter 21 Imagining the Holy Land in the Old Norse World -- Chapter 22 Enemies of Christ in the Far North: Tales of Saracens, Jews and the Saami in Norwegian Medieval Painting -- Chapter 23 The Virtues Building Jerusalem: The Four Daughters of God and Their Long Journey to Norwegian Law in the Thirteenth Century -- Chapter 24 Zion in the North: Jerusalem and the Late Medieval Histories of Uppsala -- List of Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index of Manuscripts -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

With the aim to write the history of Christianity in Scandinavia with Jerusalem as a lens, this book investigates the image - or rather the imagination - of Jerusalem in the religious, political, and artistic cultures of Scandinavia through most of the second millennium. Jerusalem is conceived as a code to Christian cultures in Scandinavia. The first volume is dealing with the different notions of Jerusalem in the Middle Ages. Tracing the Jerusalem Code in three volumesVolume 1: The Holy City Christian Cultures in Medieval Scandinavia (ca. 1100-1536)Volume 2: The Chosen People Christian Cultures in Early Modern Scandinavia (1536-ca. 1750)Volume 3: The Promised Land Christian Cultures in Modern Scandinavia (ca. 1750-ca. 1920)



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910557764403321

Autore

Ardigo Luca Paolo

Titolo

Biomechanics Energetics of Natural Assisted Human Comparative Movement Locomotion

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (68 p.)

Soggetti

Biology, life sciences

Research and information: general

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Movement and locomotion have always been key activities for all animals, being related to the most crucial life functions: retrieving food, facing environmental issues and mating. Humans developed complex upper arms movements and bipedal gaits in order to move and locomote. To enhance their performance, they started inventing smart passive mechanical tools. This need arose from intrinsic limitations of their muscle-joint-bone systems and metabolic power availability. Newly invented devices were mainly introduced in order to cope with such constraints. The aim of this Special Issue is to advance knowledge regarding symmetry, biomechanics and energetics of passively assisted human movement and locomotion.